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2017-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This Aboriginal and community-based, participatory research project aims to co-create knowledge about the holistic (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual) benefits to Indigenous youth of participating in northern games, and to identify factors that might be modified to...
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A Mixed Methods Study of Hope, Transitions, and Quality of Life in Family Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease
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Ghosh, S., Swindle, J., Peacock, S., Duggleby, W.
Background: Several research studies have reported the poor quality of life of family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, factors that influence their quality of life have not been clearly defined. The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with the...
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Action Selection for Hammer Shots in Curling: Optimization of Non-convex Continuous Actions With Stochastic Action Outcomes
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Optimal decision making in the face of uncertainty is an active area of research in artificial intelligence. In this thesis, I present the sport of curling as a novel application domain for research in optimal decision making. I focus on one aspect of the sport, the hammer shot, the last shot...
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Spring 2017
This dissertation explores philosophical issues in autism and defends a new version of the enactive approach to autism and social cognition. The discussion in this dissertation centres around the question “why do autistics encounter social interaction problems?”, addressing this question in ways...
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Spring 2015
Believable, realistic video game character behaviour continues to lag behind the improvements in graphics, stories and game play in video games. In this dissertation we focus on the use of two techniques, emotional gaits and emotional incidents, as a way to add easily identifiable, non-verbal,...
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Data Summary for EDPY303: Explaining relationships between students’ motivation and emotions
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The data presented in this document were supported by the University of Alberta- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU, Munich Germany) Partnership fund. This fund was created to assist in developing projects and activities between the two institutions. Activities should contribute to deepening the...
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Data Summary for EDPY404: Explaining relationships between students’ motivation and emotions
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The data presented in this document were supported by the University of Alberta- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU, Munich Germany) Partnership fund. This fund was created to assist in developing projects and activities between the two institutions. Activities should contribute to deepening the...